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Sony Music Names Stephanie Yu General Counsel and Executive VP of Business and Legal

Sony Music has announced the appointment of Stephanie Yu to General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs. She reports to Rob Stringer, Chairman, Sony Music Group and Kevin ...

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Movie of 2026 in 7 Days With $1.15 Billion

After just seven days on the big screen, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has already supplanted “Toy Story 5” as the highest-grossing movie of the year. Sony and Marvel’s web-slinging sequel, starring Tom...

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Kevin Bright-Produced October 7 Survivors Documentary ‘The Bridge’ Sets North American Release (EXCLUSIVE)

October 7 survivor documentary “The Bridge” is set to get a North American release coinciding with the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks. Produced by Kevin Bright (“Friends”) and directed by Brad...

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‘Ted Lasso’ Producer Brendan Hunt on What It Took to Revive the Series, Why Some Characters Didn’t Return and Whether There’s Another Three-Season Pla...

Give credit to the England women’s national football team — nicknamed the Lionesses — for inspiring the return of “Ted Lasso.” The team won the UEFA Women’s Championship in 2022, right as Jason Sudeik...

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Talia Ryder Joins Michael Shannon in ‘Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders’ (EXCLUSIVE)

“Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders,” the upcoming contemporary reimagining of iconic horror classic “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” widely considered to be the first true horror movie, has bolstered...

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Trans Pregnancy Drama ‘Aman’ Boards Nikkhil Advani and Dominique Welinski as Executive Producers Ahead of Toronto World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

“Aman,” writer-director Rahul Roye’s short film about a trans man who discovers he is pregnant on the eve of his gender-affirming surgery, has attached Nikkhil Advani and Dominique Welinski as executi...

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Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,’ Starring Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy, Boarded by WestEnd Films

WestEnd Films has boarded international sales on “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” written, directed and produced by Tim Blake Nelson, starring Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy. The film will ha...

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Cannes Critics’ Week Film ‘Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building’ Sells to Strand Releasing for North America (EXCLUSIVE)

Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Bruno Santamaria Razo’s debut feature “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building,” the Mexican coming-of-age drama that premiered at Critics’ Week a...

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Sophie Fleur de Bruijn, Whose Spec Script ‘The One Month Mark’ Sold to Apple With Jennifer Lawrence Attached, Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)

U.S. playwright-writer-director and performer Sophie Fleur de Bruijn, whose original romantic comedy spec script “The One Month Mark” recently sold to Apple, with Jennifer Lawrence attached, has signe...

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Disney Says Commercials for Super Bowl LXI Have Sold Out

Disney said it had sold out all its commercial inventory tied to its coming 2027 telecast of Super Bowl LXI, showing a remarkable push to a financial touchdown that seemed in danger of being blocked j...

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Prateek Kuhad to Make Feature Film Acting Debut in Marginal MediaWorks, D36 and Jugaad’s ‘Drowning,’ Directed by Dar Gai (EXCLUSIVE)

Prateek Kuhad, the Indian singer-songwriter known for hits including “Cold/Mess” and “Kasoor,” will make his feature film acting debut in “Drowning” (“Doobna” in Hindi/Urdu), Marginal MediaWorks has r...

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Disney Streaming Profit Doubles in June Quarter, Company Shifting Consumer Products to Studios Division

Disney posted mixed results for the June 2026 quarter, as Disney+ and Hulu continued to boost profits and the theme parks division turning in solid performance. And Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro revealed hi...

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‘The Mummy’ Poster Ads Banned From London Underground After Advertising Watchdog Cites ‘Distressing’ Imagery

The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that outdoor poster ads for “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” breached its code by presenting an image that gave “a realistic impression of a dead child,” whi...

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Alba Rohrwacher-Starrer ‘A Common Story’ Gets Boarded by True Colours Ahead of its Venice and Toronto Premieres (EXCLUSIVE)

Italian sales company True Colours has taken world sales outside Italy on first-time director Anna Foglietta’s marriage drama “A Common Story” (“Una Storia”) starring Alba Rohrwacher, ahead of its bow...

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‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Is Both a Promising Reboot and a Tedious Sequel: TV Review

Anyone with even the vaguest understanding of the profit motive can understand why Apple TV sports comedy “Ted Lasso” has returned three years after its poorly received — yet still widely watched — th...

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‘The Blacklist was a Plague’ — Locarno Retrospective Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht Talks About What We Can Learn from the Intolerance of the Past

One of the most shameful episodes in Hollywood’s history is being examined in a new retrospective to screen at the Locarno Film Festival: Red & Black: Hollywood Left and the Blacklist. Speaking to...

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Locarno Open Doors 2026: Next Gen African Tales of Miraculous Snowfalls, Lost Dreams, an African Keyboard Prodigy and New Heroes

Magic realist love story “Chapa 100,” absurdist political allegory “A Vineyard for a Lobster” and cross-continental queer drama “Hibiscus by the River” look like some of the potential standouts at Loc...

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How Genesis Is Using Korean Hospitality and the Power of Sports to Build a New Kind of Luxury Brand

A few months ago, crowds lined the 18th green at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, as 26-year-old American golfer Jacob Bridgeman secured his first PGA Tour victory at the 202...

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Perez Hilton: Disturbing Livestream Frightens Fans, Rushed to Hospital After Police Investigation

Local police were dispatched to the Miami home of Hollywood gossip journalist Perez Hilton after receiving reports about a disturbing livestream during which Hilton, covered in blood, appeared to be c...

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Eli Roth Admits ‘Ice Cream Man’ Features AI-Assisted Shots After Suggesting Otherwise: ‘I Misspoke’

Eli Roth first promised that his upcoming horror release, “Ice Cream Man,” would feature an animated sequence he had initially drawn himself. Now, days ahead of the film’s Aug. 7 premiere, Roth admitt...

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ESPN Taps Creators to Help Promote the NFL Season and its First Super Bowl Telecast

ESPN has lined up its fourth annual “Creator Network” of digital stars who will fan out across the country to promote the 2026 NFL season that is set to culminate with the Super Bowl airing on ESPN fo...

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Lindsey Buckingham, Madison Beer, Kiernan Shipka and Tiffani Thiessen Named As Presenters for Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood

Variety has announced presenters for its annual Power of Young Hollywood, this year presented by Disney+, taking place on Aug. 5 in Los Angeles. Presenting Tate McRae with the Triple Threat Award will...

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Cannibalism Comedy-Horror ‘Ali & Ben’s Spicy Meats,’ Starring Amir Nafis, Signs Abnormal Studios for Worldwide Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

Kuala Lumpur genre outfit Abnormal Studios has taken on worldwide international sales for “Ali & Ben’s Spicy Meats,” a Malaysian cannibal black comedy-horror from sibling filmmakers Iskander and F...

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LISTEN: National Comedy Center’s Journey Gunderson on Preserving Humor as History

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Journey Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., explains why it’s important to have an institution devoted to the...

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Inside Google’s Efforts to Get Creatives Hooked on AI

I was about 15 minutes into Google’s AI short-film screening when I realized I had nearly finished my popcorn. Granted, the bag was small. But the rapid munching was a natural consequence of my piqued...

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Naomi Watts’ Secret ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Role Reunited Her With Tom Holland, 12 Years After ‘The Impossible’: ‘From Playing Your Mom to Your AI...

Naomi Watts has taken to Instagram to celebrate her secret role in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” Sony and Marvel Studios’ record-breaking superhero movie. The Oscar nominee voices Peter Parker’s artifi...

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Audrey Nuna Signs to Republic Records (EXCLUSIVE)

Audrey Nuna has signed to Republic Records in advance of her new single “superHuman,” Variety can exclusively reveal. The singer, who recently broke out as the voice of Mira in “KPop Demon Hunters,” w...

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Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss on the Friendship Driving ‘Elektra/Persona’ at London’s National Theatre: ‘There’s a Lot of Masking and Unmasking’

“Elektra/Persona,” the U.K. National Theatre production fusing Sophocles’ “Elektra” with Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona,” grew out of friendship rather than a directorial concept imposed after casting, acc...

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Leslie Iwerks on ‘Disney Worldbuilders’ and How Jennifer Lee, James Cameron and Jared Bush Carry Forward Walt Disney’s Legacy

Filmmaker Leslie Iwerks is no stranger to pulling back the curtain on the magic of Disney. Her documentaries “The Pixar Story, “Disneyland Handcrafted” and “The Imagineering Story” all delve behind th...

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Hearst Clinches Deal to Buy Out A+E Global Media Stake From Disney

Hearst has set a deal to acquire Disney’s 50% stake in A+E Global Media, the parent company of Lifetime, History Channel, A&E Network and other assets in a deal that calls for Hearst to pay Disney...

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What Happened to the Boy From ‘Boyhood’? Ellar Coltrane on 12 Years of Linklater’s Classic, Coming to Set High and More

When Richard Linklater released “Boyhood” in 2014, moviegoers had never seen anything quite like it. Filmed over the space of 12 years, the coming-of-age classic followed a Texas family living through...

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Bill Hader, James Wan, Devon Pritchard, Nick Kroll and Keith Le Goy Join Variety Entertainment and Technology Summit Programming

Variety has announced Emmy-winning producer and actor Bill Hader; producer-director James Wan; producer-actor Nick Kroll; Nintendo of America president and COO Devon Pritchard, and Sony Pictures Telev...

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Judge Sets Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Trial for March 2027

The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has issued a preliminary scheduling order, with a trial set to start in March 2027 — considerably late...

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‘The Voice’ Celebrity Edition to Air on NBC in 2027, With Host Keke Palmer and Judges Joe Jonas, Queen Latifah, Riley Green

“The Voice” is plotting its first-ever celebrity edition. NBC announced Tuesday that it is starting production on “The Voice: Celebrity,” which will air sometime in 2027. Keke Palmer will host, while ...

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